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The first missions which really caught my attention were Apollo 13 and then Apollo 14. In first grade classes and others, our teachers rolled in televisions on wheeled carts for us to watch Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell on the moon. This was long before I learned about Alan Shepard being the first American in space. Then the lunar rovers came and Apollo 17 ended the program.

Curiosity was me "moment" even though I had been space nerd well before that.

2 of the bravest things I have seen. 1) Alan Shepard is my ultimate hero. The rocket he rode was tested just before he went sub-orbital. It blew up a few feet off the pad. And then a month later he got into another rocket and went up. I was 9. (2) The Steely eyed missile men that plotted and allowed $3B Casini to fly 46 miles above the surface of Enceladus so it could sniff the geysers. Saturn is 970M miles away. Can you imagine plotting that engine burn that put Casini on its path? Both of these missions relied on pure guts and how intelligent mankind really is.

How many Canadians participate in NASA missions?

How much money does Canada give to NASA projects?

I remember I was in grade 1 being taken to the gymnasium to watch apollo 17 astronauts bounce around on the moon. Shuttle started when I was in Grade 9..

I was lucky enough to live on a farm in a remote area of New Zealand where my father and I went outside and watched Sputmik 1 in 1957. Then I was in Sydney Australia when Armstrong walked on the moon and we were so proud of the part that the Parks Radio Telescope (The Dish) played in providing the television pictures for the entire world for the majority of the first moonwalk. I have since visited The Dish and also have been lucky enough to have a tour through The Anglo Australian 3.9 metre telescope which when it was built in 1974, it was one of the largest telescopes in the world and is still in use.

I was in second grade when the first US maned flight to space took place. We watched it from our classroom! I was in AWE! I was in awe through out this week. I was especially impressed with the splash down. Science is amazing. Thank you for all your hard work that helps me better understand science

The US always has enough money to create war, bombs, and tanks. Things like NASA, poverty programs and the study of peace, always take second place. It’s ok, climate change will take care of it all in time. We just keep ignoring it…

In 1969 I was an electrical engineering student at Tufts University outside Boston. For my summer job I was working for NASA at their Electronics Research Center (ERC) in Cambridge. My boss, Fred Hills, Director of Technical Utilization Branch, grabbed me at some point in the day and asked me to come with him up to the ’Director’s Suite on the top floor of the building - no clue at the time what was up. When we arrived at the Suite, after introducing me to a few of his peers, we stepped into the main conference room that was set up a table of glasses, already filled with bubbling champagne and furnished with comfy swivel chairs nicely arranged close in front of a HUGE rear-screen projection setup. Small talk filtered all around me as I and about 15 other folks, mostly executives at the Center, took our seats in front of the biggest TV - like screen I’d ever seen. By this time, I knew what was coming and was totally excited. I didn’t have long to wait for almost as soon as we’d all gotten seated, the screen came alive and we all witnessed the historic landing….

Lol at please follow my nephew!

Watched the splashdown last night. Fam, I sobbed. As for me and space? 1. Star Trek was on TV EVERY evening and from the time I started watching TV, a humanity in space seemed, not an inevitability, but a fact. 2. Cosmos aired when I was 7, and my parents made sure to watch it with me 3. Books like Our Universe and the Golden Book of Astronomy 4. Columbia's inaugural mission

I was always a space enthusiast since before I can remember. Every year (at Halloween I think) a TV network would play 2001 a space odyssey and every year my mom would allow me to commandeer the TV to watch it and she would suffer through it for me. I have watched it many times, but last year I tried rewatching it and finally, at long last, it was just moving too slow. I fast forwarded to my favorite parts and skipped the end. It had a very long run for me, but sadly, it is over now.

I got hooked on space when I was staring up at the moon, freezing my pre-school butt off in the Scandinavian winter night, trying to see the spaceship on its way up there, annoyed that I couldn't. It was December, so it could have been Apollo 8, but was more likely Apollo 12.

if you wanna know what event gave me that deep interest and connection to space and stuff? i remember 1997 laying in my bed as a kid, pillow on the window frame and staring on end at hale bopp... i had a fascination with aeroplane and space topics already, eaten book after book, but this is really a moment i remember okok not to forgot those nights as kid when after we put the camping fire out we watched the sky full of shooting stars